Improvement in sliding and swinging gates



W. SNYDER.

Sliding and Swinging Gate.

Patented April 17, 1866.

l/ t I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WM. SNYDER, OF VVOOSTEB, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLIDING AND SWINGING GATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,032, dated April 17,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM SNYDER, of Wooster, in the county of Wayneand State of Ohio, have made a new and useful Improvement in Gates; andI do hereby declare the following; to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the nature, construction, and operation of thesame,sufficient to enable one skilled in the art to which it appertainsto construct and use the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawing, which is made part of this specification, and in which myimprovement is represented by a perspective view.

The invention consists in the arrangement of a roller journaled in oneof the short crossbattens connecting the diagonal posts which supportthe heel of the gate, and in the taper or inclined slat which covers theslots occupied by the slats at the swinging end of the gate, so thatthey shall enter successively from the upper one downward, whereby theclosure of the gate is much facilitated.

In the drawings, A A are two posts, set diagonally to each other, andunited by two sets of battens, the battens 0 being in line with the gatewhen closed, and the battens D being transverse thereto and carrying aroller, F, on which the gate B B, 850., traverses as it is pushed openpreparatory to being rotated onequarter of a revolution to assume theposition shown in red lines.

The roller F may be set in depressions in the upper side of one of thebattens D, or it may be journaled in a plate, E, with which the uppersurface of the batten D is provided.

The post G has cleats J and a slat, I, attached to it, having openingsbetween the slat and the post for the reception of boards B B B B 13,which, with their uprights K, form the gate. The upper board isprolonged to form a handle, and the gate is fastened by a pin.

The slat I on the face of the post G is tapered toward the foot, or elseinclined, so that at its foot it is farther from the post A than at itsupper end. The object of this arrangement is, that when the gate isbeing closed the end of the board B may be allowed to enter. the spaceprovided for it in advance of the other boards, which follow itsuccessively in point of time in entering their openings between thecleats J J. By this means the gate is more readily brought into a closedposition than it would he were all the boards B B, 850., caused to enterthe socket simultaneously.

The post G projects above the vertical slat, and exceeds the said slatin width sufficiently to expose a face against which the end of the gatemay be closed before sliding it into the slots, and the corners of thepost or slat, or both, may be beveled, so as to form a contractingthroat to guide the ends of the slats into their places.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The roller F, battens D, and diagonal posts A, all to be used incombination with a sliding and swinging gate, substantially as and forthe purposes set forth.

, WM. SNYDER.

\Vitnesses:

JAMES L. EWIN, O. KNIGHT.

